Pawn shop

Quality:

Pawnbroker - individual or business that offers loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral. Article “Pawn shop” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Pawn shop”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1130 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3104 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #857 in December 2023
• Global: #1098 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #219 in August 2023
• Global: #31475 in July 2010

There are 37 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 典當業		66.5408
2	English (en) Pawnbroker		48.5891
3	Japanese (ja) 質屋		43.8511
4	German (de) Pfandleiher		33.2108
5	Russian (ru) Ломбард		32.8328
6	Vietnamese (vi) Tiệm cầm đồ		30.9488
7	Swedish (sv) Pantbank		30.297
8	Greek (el) Ενεχυροδανειστήριο		28.9741
9	Catalan (ca) Casa d'empenyorament		27.4468
10	Turkish (tr) Rehinci		24.4801

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pawnbroker		3 548 984
2	Japanese (ja) 質屋		669 510
3	Russian (ru) Ломбард		545 898
4	Chinese (zh) 典當業		337 003
5	German (de) Pfandleiher		301 738
6	Simple English (simple) Pawn shop		269 691
7	French (fr) Prêt sur gage		256 426
8	Indonesian (id) Rumah gadai		172 047
9	Spanish (es) Casa de empeños		151 779
10	Polish (pl) Lombard (instytucja)		138 553

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pawnbroker		6 847
2	Chinese (zh) 典當業		1 242
3	Japanese (ja) 質屋		1 105
4	Russian (ru) Ломбард		938
5	German (de) Pfandleiher		554
6	French (fr) Prêt sur gage		544
7	Simple English (simple) Pawn shop		373
8	Spanish (es) Casa de empeños		320
9	Italian (it) Banco dei pegni		290
10	Polish (pl) Lombard (instytucja)		283

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pawnbroker		360
2	Chinese (zh) 典當業		111
3	German (de) Pfandleiher		85
4	Russian (ru) Ломбард		71
5	Japanese (ja) 質屋		69
6	French (fr) Prêt sur gage		54
7	Dutch (nl) Lommerd		46
8	Swedish (sv) Pantbank		30
9	Ukrainian (uk) Ломбард		29
10	Polish (pl) Lombard (instytucja)		27

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pawnbroker		2
2	Catalan (ca) Casa d'empenyorament		1
3	Korean (ko) 전당포		1
4	Romanian (ro) Casă de amanet		1
5	Arabic (ar) مرتهن		0
6	Belarusian (be) Ламбард		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Заложна къща		0
8	Czech (cs) Zastavárna		0
9	Danish (da) Pantelåner		0
10	German (de) Pfandleiher		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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